Whitewashing race : the myth of a color-blind society / Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, David Wellman.

Introduction: Race preferences and race privileges
1. Of fish and water: perspectives on racism and privilege
2. The bankruptcy of virtuous markets: racial inequality, poverty, and "individual failure"
3. Keeping Blacks in their place: race, education, and testing
4. Been in the pen so long: race, crime, and justice
5. Civil rights and racial equality: employment discrimination law, affirmative action, and quotas
6. Color-blindness as color consciousness: voting rights and political equality
Conclusion: facing up to race
Afterword to the 2023 edition.